099 Easy wire removal with blur and grow

- [Steve Wright] Hi, this is Steve Wright…welcoming you to this week's Nuke Nugget,…a slick method of wire removal.…In Nuke Nugget number 98 last week,…we saw how to use the blur and grow technique…for tracking marker removal.…Not surprisingly, the same basic approach…can also be used for wire removal.…Let's see how it works.…So, to take these wires out here, we can get by with a key.…So the first step is to figure out our key strategy,…so we'll look at the red channel.…Let me gamma down the viewer.…

Now, this will exaggerate the falloff.…We want a channel that has a fairly uniform color…and good contrast.…Okay, the green channel, gamma down a little more.…Oh, that's got a lot of falloff too.…We look at the blue channel and, there you go.…Nice and uniform.…Of course, that's mostly because the blue channel…was clipped in the photograph, right?…Right.…Okay, but the blue channel is our guide.…So, selecting the read node,…coming over to the keyer tab, let's get a keyer node…and we'll set the operation to a blue keyer,…

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3/1/2018

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3/3/2016

NUKE NUGGETS Weekly is a series of short 5–10 minute tips and tricks for Nuke compositing. New tips are delivered every Thursday, covering topics such as lighting, color matching, grading, animation, camera moves, interlaced video, cloning, rotoscoping, and more. With NUKE, there are literally hundreds of possibilities. Expert Steve Wright helps you explore a different facet of the program every week, including little known nodes and production tips to help you become a better, more efficient compositor.

Skill Level Intermediate

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